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Bede Goff (1927-2000) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.  He played for Western Suburbs and Balmain in the New South Wales Rugby League (NSWRL) competition.

Playing career
Goff made his first grade debut in 1952, the same year that Western Suburbs defeated South Sydney in the grand final to claim their 4th and final premiership.  Goff made no appearances for Wests in 1953 or 1954 but returned to the first grade side in 1955.  Western Suburbs would go on to finish last in 1955 winning only 3 games for the entire season.

In 1956 and 1957, Western Suburbs finished in 4th place but were eliminated in the finals by Souths on both occasions.  In 1958, Western Suburbs finished 2nd on the table just behind minor premiers St George.  In the first week of the finals, Wests shocked St George defeating them 34-10 with Goff playing at hooker in the game.  Western Suburbs would then go on to reach the 1958 grand final against St George.  Goff played at hooker in the final as St George took a 10-5 lead into halftime.  In the second half, St George held off Wests to win their 3rd straight premiership 20-9.

The following season in 1959, Wests finished 2nd on the table and were looking to reach another grand final against St George.  Wests fell short of the final as they were upset by Manly-Warringah 14-13.  In his final year at Western Suburbs, the club reached another preliminary final but were defeated by Eastern Suburbs 20-15.  The loss was Goff's last game for the team and he departed at seasons end to join Balmain.

In Goff's one season at Balmain, the club finished 3rd on the table and reached the preliminary final.  Balmain's opponents in the preliminary final were ironically Goff's former club Western Suburbs.  In a close game, Balmain lost 7-5.  This would be Goff's final game as a player and he retired at the end of the 1961 season.

At representative level, Goff played 2 games for New South Wales against Queensland and 1 game for New South Wales City.

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1927 births
2000 deaths
Western Suburbs Magpies players
Balmain Tigers players
Australian rugby league players
Rugby league players from Sydney
New South Wales rugby league team players
City New South Wales rugby league team players
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Q: Use of "as" to mean "like" -- "nothing occurs if I click on the button as there is no button there" I wrote:

the button doesn't get highlighted as the mouse hover it and nothing occurs if I click on the button as there is no button there/as it is not a button

By the bold phrase I want to say, the button doesn't respond as you expect, so you may think it is not a button or it is disabled. Am I correctly used "as"? What are other ways to say such sentence?

A: We can use the construction "as if there were no"

The button doesn't get highlighted when the mouse cursor hovers over it, and nothing occurs if I click on the button, as if there were no button there.

Or:

The button doesn't get highlighted when the mouse cursor hovers over it, and nothing occurs if I click on the button, as if it were not a button.

In the examples above, I employed the subjunctive form: "as if it were", but you can retain the indicative form: is

The button doesn't get highlighted when the mouse cursor hovers over it, and nothing occurs if I click on the button, as if there is no button there.

The crucial thing is to use not just as but as if. Compare:

She's spending money like there's no tomorrow. (okay)
She's spending money as there's no tomorrow. (not okay: the meaning has changed)
She's spending money as if there's no tomorrow. (okay)

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TORONTO, April 8, 2019 /CNW/ – Tricon Capital Group Inc. ("Tricon" or the "Company") (TSX:TCN), an investment manager focused on the residential real estate industry, invites you to participate in its live conference call with senior management in which we will discuss the Company's financial results for the first quarter of 2019. The call will take place on Wednesday, May 8, 2019, at 10 a.m. ET.
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The North Face Hedgehog GTX III is a lightweight trail running shoe made of Goretex fabric with a Vibram sole. This makes them waterproof, breathable and durable with good grip without weighing you down.
That's the theory. But how do they really hold up?
Firstly, I need to say that I got these shoes, not for trail running (my running days are sadly over), but for a cycle tour through the Americas.
My first impression on getting the shoes were I love the colour! I got the decidedly odd sounding colour combo of coffee brown and algae yellow. But they're great. In any case, there are several colours to choose from, in both mens and womens.
I have wide feet for a girl and so opted for the men's version. The fit was perfect. Comfy from the start.
I've now been cycling 6 weeks in them. That's nearly 2,000 miles (3,000km) of pedalling or pushing. On tarmac and gravel, flat roads and lung-busting hills. And the nightly search for a campspot in the bush.
The shoes are holding up great. There's very little wear on them yet. The only sign being at the back of the heel on the inside. But I always have tho problem as I am too lazy to untie the laces when putting the on and off.
This brings me to one of their downsides… the laces come undone, when I don't want them to, even when double-knotted! Not so often, but I notice it nd it's annoying. That said, I am wearing these shoes day-in day-out, which is not typical if you bought them for trail running. (I used to have Salomon x-trainers and I love their lace system which doesn't require any tying at all).
The shoes cope well with wet grass and even in a downpour for a while. But when cycling, eventually the water starts running down the inside of the shoe and then rapidly your feet are soaked. But that would be the same with any shoe. Being Goretex they take some time to dry out.
Similarly, being Goretex, they are not as breathable as a none waterproof shoe.
As with everything, the shoe is a compromise in some ways. If you want waterproofness over breathability, good ventilation over warmth, then this shoe is a great option.
In other ways, there is no compromise at all… lightweight and durable, good grip and flexible.
I'll introduce you to my "Slam" mesh deck shoes when I next see you (in pretty pink…or at least they use to be!!).
I would suggest Keen! They got me across England without one blister! Keep ups the post love reading your travels! If you want to do the east of Canada let us know!
Yeah, I loved my Keen shoes I had for the 2 year Africa trip… will be interesting to see if these last as long.
Sure would love to see the east of Canada too. It might just have to wait a little while!
Whatever socks I have! At the moment, either old hockey socks or little cheap ankle socks.
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Q: Popper styled_default is not a function Mui 5.6.0 [material-ui] After upgrading from @mui/material 5.5.0 to 5.6.4 my vite react-ts app doesn't run, throwing an error: styled_default is not a function by Popper.js, the popper component is being used by an autocomplete component
The theme provider is wrapping entire app
Autocomplete is hitting an api to populate options, but a fresh vite project with mui doesn't seem to have this issue?
Any help / pointers in the right direction would be appreciated
running react 17.0.2
vite 2.8.0
mui/material 5.6.4

A: For me worked by change the ThemeProvider export path
after
import { ThemeProvider } from '@mui/material/styles';

previously
import { ThemeProvider } from '@mui/material';

A: This issue has been closed. https://github.com/mui/material-ui/issues/32727
Yet it is an ongoing issue.

A: Try reinstalling your node_modules. Worked for me.


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R (Plan B Earth, Friends of the Earth, London Borough of Hillingdon & others) v. Secretary of State for Transport
Citation: [2020] EWCA Civ 214
These were the high profile environmental law challenges to the Airports National Policy Statement ("ANPS") which endorsed the principle of expansion of London Heathrow Airport including third runway and sixth terminal. Following a 6 day expedited hearing, the Court of Appeal (Lindblom, Singh and Haddon-Cave LJJ) allowed Plan B Earth's and Friends of the Earth's appeals on climate change grounds, and dismissed the appeals of LB Hillingdon and other London local authorities on habitats and strategic environmental assessment grounds.
Charles Banner QC appeared for Arora Holdings Ltd, which participated in the proceedings on behalf of the Arora Group who wish to build the new terminal that is to be part of the Heathrow NWR Scheme. He was instructed by CMS.
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An unidentified person shot a bullet after the satsang was over yesterday in Bangalore.


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Indigent Defense
Improving Indigent Defense
According to numerous studies, for years, the state of Michigan failed residents in the area of providing competent legal representation to people who could not afford legal counsel in the criminal courts. A study by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in June, 2008 painted a bleak picture for criminal defendants.
The year-long study of indigent legal services in 10 Michigan counties was conducted in a partnership with the State Bar of Michigan and on behalf of the Michigan Legislature. Issues uncovered in the study included: the failure to ensure public defenders were shielded from undue judicial interference, the failure to manage public defender workloads, failure to provide sufficient time and confidential space for attorney-client meetings, failure to require that attorneys have adequate experience and training to match the complexity of the case, inadequate compensation for attorneys, and a lack of sufficient time, training, investigators experts and resources to prepare a case.
This study followed the filing of a class-action lawsuit by the ACLU and its coalition partners, called Duncan V, Granholm. According to the ACLU, the suit was filed to encourage the state to fix the well-known problems in Michigan's indigent defense system; including the lack of administrative oversight of funding for public defense at the trial level, no training for public defense attorneys, no performance standards, and insufficient resources to hire outside investigators or experts. The case had a rocky road in the courts. It was challenged by the state, which asked the courts to dismiss the case while contending that the counties, not the state, were responsible for the system's deficiencies. The Supreme Court dismissed the case in July 2010, but reinstated the order and sent it back to the Ingham County Circuit court to rule on the merits of the case.
In October 2011, then-Governor Rick Snyder issued an executive order establishing a commission to improve Michigan's system for providing legal defense to poor people in criminal cases.
In June 2012, the Governor's Indigent Defense Advisory Commission issued a report that acknowledged the problems and outlined ways for the legislature to address the problems.
In July 2013, the Michigan Legislature enacted the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission Act that created the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission. The commission sets minimum standards for training, the appointment of legal counsel, performance monitoring, and ensures that competent legal counsel is provided to indigent defendants across the state.
For information on how Monroe County is in compliance with the standards set forth by the MIDC Act, see the Monroe County MIDC Compliance Plan page.
Steps of a Felony Case
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Q: Why is QR factorization useful and important? Why do we need QR factorization? Is this used in any particular field?

A: $\def\R{\mathbb R}\def\norm#1{\left\|#1\right\|}\def\Mat{\mathrm{Mat}}$
QR-factorisation can, for example, be used to solve linear least squares approximation problems as follows: Given $n \le m$, $A \in \Mat_{m,n}(\R)$ with full rank $n$, $b \in \R^m$
\[ \mathrm{find}\ x \in \R^n : \norm{Ax - b}_2 = \min \]
Computing the QR-factorisation of $A$, we write $A = QR$ with $Q \in O(m)$, $R \in \Mat_{m,n}(\R)$ upper triangular. Now, as the $2$-norm is invariant under multiplication with orthogonal matrices,
\[ \norm{Ax- b}_2 = \norm{Q^{-1}Ax - Q^{-1}b}_2 = \norm{Rx - Q^{-1}b}_2 \]
As $m \ge n$, $R$ is of the form $R = \begin{pmatrix} R' \\ 0\end{pmatrix}$ with $R' \in \Mat_n(\R)$ upper triangular. Writing $Q^{-1}b = \begin{pmatrix} y_1 \\ y_2\end{pmatrix}, x = \begin{pmatrix} x_1\\ x_2\end{pmatrix} \in \R^n \times \R^{m-n}$, we have
\[ \norm{Ax - b}_2 = \sqrt{\norm{Rx_1 - y_1}^2 + \norm{y_2}^2} \]
as $\mathop{\mathrm{rank}} R' = \mathop{\mathrm{rank}} A = n$, $R'$ is invertible and hence we need $x = R'^{-1}y_1$ for minimisation.

Another thing, QR factorisation can be useful for is numerical approximation of eigenvectors and -values of a symmetric matrix $A$. Let $A_0 = A$, $A_{k+1} = R_kQ_k$ with $A_k = Q_kR_k$ the QR-decomposition of $A$. One can show that $Q_k \to Q$ and $R_k \to \Lambda$ where $\Lambda$ contains the eigenvalues of $A$ along its diagonal and $Q$ the eigenvectors in its columns.

A: QR Factorization records the orthogonalization of a matrix, namely, the construction of an orthogonal set that spans the space of column vectors of A. Doing calculations with orthogonal matrices is preferable because (1) they are easy to invert by definition, and (2) they do not magnify errors.


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This review contains very mild spoilers for chapters one and two of the room three you have been warned. talking about the room 3 the latest installment in the point Press poll and twist adventure series from fireproof games that makes a lot more sense anyway the game continues the story started in the first two games and adds a few new tricks and twists along the way to keep things reasonably fresh the court remains the same though and for the uninitiated what does that core involves prodding boxes puzzle boxes each chapter of the game is a puzzle with multiple parts that you need to solve their switches to pull things to slide into place and all manner of other contraptions to contend with way other contractions so it's not all boxes now the room 3 widens the scope of the original there are still boxes but the puzzles are spread out across multiple rooms now you might need to ignite a furnace to melt some gold or change the path of an underground stream to start a water wheel turning does it add anything new there are a couple of new additions some puzzles need you to manipulate items with more than one finger holding things down while you move others around then there's the new eyeglasses lissy transport into impossibly small places does the new stuff gel well in some cases yes the multi-layered puzzles are brilliantly put together full of strings of eureka moments and sudden realizations switching between dreams does reveal the frailty of the control system a little too often and there's about a slightly frustrating backtracking here in their way I thought that the room is all about the controls it is and when you're focused in on a puzzle manipulating things with taps and swipes they're still pretty much perfect in fact if anything they're an improvement on what came before it's the wandering around that's not quite so satisfying. The Room Three APK+DATA roam the overall experience this is a game stuffed full of atmosphere and style it drips with creepy spectacle from the first bars of the opening theme to the shutter of noise when you complete a task, i would definitely recommend The Room Three. and the entire series is an example of quality work.


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Hope for the Flowers
Katherine Sandoz takes a step back to admire her site-specific painting at Telfair Museums' Jepson Center in downtown Savannah, paintbrush still in hand. For a moment, she blends into the afternoon crowd of spectators. There's a softness about her as she listens to onlookers describe the depth she has offered to this blank canvas. She listens intently, nodding and taking in their thoughts, but offers no further explanation.
It's symbolic of her general approach to art. Her work is the jumping-off point for conversations about our environment, both natural and man-made.
It's meant to be personal. The muted strokes of blue, green, and yellow on the wall shift the scale relationship between the viewer and the art presented. And Sandoz is inspired by it all.
Cultivating Growth
Sandoz (pronounced SAHN-doe) is a prolific painter. Her collaboration with Telfair Museums is a culmination of a yearlong study of botanicals. Flora, paint, and artifice intermingle on the canvases she creates. There's a similar approach to all of her work. Whether it's fibers, illustrations, or large-scale painting, Sandoz presents her world with active colors and adds an element of surprise. She presses into each portion of her paintings, adding layers and textures to what appears to be a thoroughly finished panel. In turn, she awakens her subject and adds to its story.
In the end, though, she simply wants it to be visually pleasing.
"Before I even have a blank canvas, I have a source of information," Sandoz says. "There is someone or something in my mind, in my drawings and sketches. I plan for a series in a pretty formal way."
Sandoz draws inspiration from the world around her. The botanicals often come from long walks in her Vernonburg neighborhood on Savannah's Southside. This particular painting titled Sagittaria (the formal Latin genus of the katniss plant) explores the relationship between the aquatic plant and its habitation buried in swamps, bogs, and ditches.
Sandoz creates cohesion with each series, embracing the formalism that comes with her techniques—something she has learned to appreciate about herself.
"It's okay to be a formalist," she reassures. "Even those who are naïve or untrained have empirical evidence for why they create. They're not working in a void. We're all working with what we are given; the lives that have happened before."
Sandoz's peppered past has led her to this moment. Her parents met in art school, and she was born in New Hampshire a short time later. "Many children and many stories ensued," she says, glossing over her early years. Sandoz prefers to live in the present, but her past is represented in the lines of her work. There's a historical imprint in everything she creates, she says.
She moved often with her mother in her youth, helping families set up homeschools across the US. She herself was homeschooled until eighth grade, and art was always in the background.
"I always made art, just like all kids do," she says. "People are meant to make things. And if you make things, you are an artist."
Her implied status seems simple, but art remained a part of her life as she explored other opportunities. After college, she spent a decade in the Army Reserves—she thought it was a good job. In the late '80s, she caught the advertising bug and embraced office life. She worked as an account planner, collected data for focus groups, and illustrated advertorials.
"Working there, I really became excited by and enamored by the strategies that advertising used to make messages," she says.
For Sandoz, her scope of work is bound by similar language. Making qualitative and quantitative studies was something that she could build off of artistically. The tools are the same, she says, but the conclusion is often different.
She left the advertising business to pursue a degree in art. Her intention was to go art school and come back, perhaps become an art director. But like art often does, the outcome shifted during the process.
Blooming Onto The Scene
A small breeze wakes the leaves on a large oak tree outside her home. There used to be more, she says, but in 2016, Hurricane Matthew left a path of destruction. They lost eight trees, one of which fell onto her home. Sandoz, her husband, Dan, and their two sons were displaced for more than a year.
They are finally settling back in, reclaiming their lives and the 1.6 acres they call home. For Sandoz, this remains her sanctuary. The dichotomy of being close to a city and still maintaining the solace of the country has been the perfect compromise for her family. Her husband, an environmental scientist, often goes fishing in the Vernon River, and Sandoz walks through the neighborhood to breathe in the scenery.
A large barn behind the property acts as a makeshift studio. She wakes each morning with a thoughtful intention to paint. The openness of the structure allows her to work on numerous large-scale paintings at once. Sandoz makes a conscious choice to be an artist. It's a job that needs to be fulfilled, she says.
"Most people are artists naturally, but the art world complicates being an artist. It fetishizes it and puts it on a pedestal," she says. "The day-to-day is not always simple, but if you have a need to create, you will do it."
Sandoz drew on this comparison as she reminisced about being both a student and educator at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). While studying for her master of fine arts in illustration, she never felt obligated to finish a project; it was something she simply did. Likewise, in her years as a professor of illustration, she steered students to develop their own voice and work within their own parameters and self-imposed constraints.
"They were going to create with or without me," she says. "When you're an artist, you have to."
Sandoz is at home in Savannah. It's where her philanthropic efforts are centered. It's where her sons attend school and where she offers an intern program for SCAD and Georgia Southern University students. Savannah is where Rachel Reese, Telfair Museums' curator of modern and contemporary art, first reached out with the possibility of a creative pursuit.
Reese asked Sandoz to consider making a site-specific painting and further explore the layers, translucency, and transparency to transcribe it into an additional installation piece.
Sandoz found her interests all came together while creating Sagittaria and its complementary sculptured installation piece Katniss, but she had reservations early on. She had never before made a sculpture. Even still, the sculpture evolved in the same manner as the native vegetation that inspired its arrangement. It grew slowly from an idea—a seedling—into something more tangible. She soon partnered with fellow SCAD alum Julio Garcia of Price Street Projects out of Miami who fabricated the pieces, and she displayed them in the Jepson Center's atrium with the help of museum staff. The process took more than a year to develop and resulted in the museum's largest commission to date for any living artist.
The petal-like shapes are suspended as unique, layered, and translucently colorful acrylic elements, an auspicious 108 pieces in all, and hung from
19 points in the ceiling. The installation transforms as visitors shift location below. Once inside, the building acts as a pond: the sculptures, the leaves, and the viewers become a small but active part of the ecosystem—as a frog, a water bug, or a single-celled organism.
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Mutations in CYBA or CYBB, encoding p22phox or NOX2, respectively, lead to because of the absence of cytb in both cases. This means that the synthesis of both subunits is essential for the maturation of cytb. CGD is a rare inherited disorder in which phagocytic cells are unable to kill pathogens during an infection. Patients suffer from severe and recurrent infections early in childhood. Actually, the main treatment is antibiotic and antifungal prophylaxis. Allogenic bone marrow transplantation is possible and genetic therapy is currently under development. The most frequent CGD form is X-linked CGD caused by mutations in CYBB (60% of cases). Mutations in the CYBA gene encoding p22phox are extremely rare (about 6%) and lead to AR-CGD220. However, in countries such as Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan AR inheritance can be the predominant form because of the high rate of consanguinity. As of 2010, 55 different mutations of CYBA have been identified. Most CYBA mutations result in the absence of p22phox expression (AR-CGD220). The only missense mutation leading to a normal expression of a nonfunctional p22phox protein is Pro156Gln (AR-CGD22+) located in the potential cytosolic C-terminal tail of p22phox. This mutation in the PRR of p22phox disrupted the interaction between p22phox and p47phox, confirming the importance of this domain in the oxidase activation in neutrophils. Since p22phox is ubiquitous and associated with different NOXs, it could be logical that CGD patients suffer from the consequences of the absence of p22phox expression in tissues. However it is far from being evident. One possibility could be that the humans may be able to compensate for the absence of p22phox and/or NOXs in cells and tissues other than phagocytes. Given the rarity of the AR-CGD220 forms, information on the severity of this type of CGD is difficult to establish. A relationship between the presence of residual ROS production and the survival of CGD patients has been found. In case of CYBA mutations leading to the absence of p22phox, NOX2 expression is also absent and disables cytochrome b558, the redox element of the NADPH oxidase complex. Therefore, these mutations behave similarly to severe X-CGD. The molecular and phenotypic characterization of a p22phox-deficient mouse strain with the Tyr121His missense mutation in CYBA has been described. The p22phox deficiency results in the clinical and biological characteristics of CGD as well as a severe balance disorder in these mice. As the site of p22phox expression is in the inner ear, p22phox has been proposed as being involved in the control of vestibular organogenesis. In addition, mutations of NOX3 in head-tilt mice were associated with vestibular defects. Yet the in vivo relevance of p22phox for NOX3 function remains uncertain because AR-CGD220 patients do not suffer from vestibular dysfunction (personal data). One possibility could be that the human brain may be able to compensate the balance defect. In Matsumoto Eosinophilia Shinshu (MES) rats a loss-of-function mutation in CYBA was responsible for spontaneous and severe blood eosinophilia. These rats suffered from a balance defect due to a leak of otoconia in the inner ear, like nmf333 mice. In addition, MES rats retained normal innate immune defense against Staphylococcus aureus infection probably because of the hypereosinophilia. However, the mechanisms by which CYBA mutations lead to eosinophilia remain unknown.. Cytochrome b-245 light chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYBA gene involved in superoxide production and phagocytosis. Cytochrome b-245 is composed of a light chain (alpha) and a heavy chain (beta).. Cytochrome b (-245) is composed of cytochrome b alpha (CYBA) and beta (CYBB) chain. It has been proposed as a primary component of the microbicidal oxidase system of phagocytes. CYBB deficiency is one of five described biochemical defects associated with chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). In this.
dendrite, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, NADPH oxidase complex, neuronal cell body, nuclear envelope, plasma membrane, rough endoplasmic reticulum, superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase activity, cellular response to cadmium ion. Gene ID: 66021, updated on 31-Dec-2016. Summary. subunit of coronary microvascular endothelial cell NAD(P)H oxidase [RGD, Feb 2006] Other designations. The PDB archive contains information about experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. As a member of the wwPDB, the RCSB PDB curates and annotates PDB data according to agreed upon standards. The RCSB PDB also provides a variety of tools and resources. Users can perform simple and advanced searches . Fusion genes (updated 2017) Data from Atlas, Mitelman, Cosmic Fusion, Fusion Cancer, TCGA fusion databases with official HUGO symbols (see references in chromosomal bands). neutrophil cytochrome b 91 kDa polypeptide; CYBB; superoxide-generating NADPH oxidase heavy chain subunit; gp91-phox; cytochrome b-245 heavy chain; p22 phagocyte B-cytochrome. The Cytochrome b (-245) protein complex is composed of cytochrome b alpha and beta chain. References .
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Ask a manual question using human strings by referencing the name of a single sensor that takes parameters, but supplying only two of the four parameters that are used by the sensor (and letting pytan automatically determine the appropriate default value for those parameters which require a value and none was supplied).

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Mila Kunis's love for 'Bachelor in Paradise' revealed
Millions of fans who tuned in to the Aug. 31 episode of Bachelor in Paradise watched as contestant Ashley Iaconetti compared the looks of fellow romance-seeker Jared to those of Ashton Kutcher. Luckily for viewers, Mila Kunis saved them the trouble of analyzing their profiles by posting her own side-by-side comparison. "I'm trying to figure out why mila is making me take this picture @ashleyiaco who are you? And who is this guy?" tweeted the Two and a Half Men star.
I'm trying to figure out why mila is making me take this picture @ashleyiaco who are you? And who is this guy? pic.twitter.com/0EC6J3n6Sj
— ashton kutcher (@aplusk) September 1, 2015
"Omg just seeing this...Hi Ashton, I'm Ashley! Thanks for the side by side comparison, Mila. @joejonas, your turn!" tweeted the 26-year-old beauty, who is on the show trying to find love after losing out on the 19th season of The Bachelor.
Omg just seeing this...Hi Ashton, I'm Ashley!  Thanks for the side by side comparison, Mila. @joejonas, your turn! https://t.co/bOkq9awnX2
— Ashley Iaconetti (@ashleyiaco) September 1, 2015
Mila isn't the first A-list celebrity to pledge their love for the Bachelor franchise. Earlier this year, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn revealed to Jimmy Kimmel that he and ex-love Charlize Theron were obsessed with the reality dating show. "I don't really want to hear the conversations, I want to know the decisions. You can decide on this one or this one. And I want to see somebody cry. And then see somebody get ecstatic and then see them cry." Comedian Amy Schumer is also a devoted fan, even going as far as making an appearance on the last season of The Bachelorette to help Canadian Kaitlyn Bristowe tap into her suitors' funny bones.
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Re: Hairdresser with flair who cuts short hair well?
Charlotte, owner of Charlotte Cave in Balham and Clapham Common is absolutely amazing. She cut my very thick hair from long to short. The cut was great and very easy to maintain. Highly recommend.
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88% vote in favour of new student centre
The result of the vote was announced in House 6 just after 6pm this evening
Niamh Lynch
Trinity College Dublin Students' Union (TCDSU) have voted in favour of a new student centre. The result was announced just after 6pm today. The total poll was 1,304 with 18 spoiled votes. 1,146, 88%, voted in favour of the student centre, while 140, 11%, voted against.
The two-day campaign period in the referendum on a new student centre finished on Tuesday, with voting taking place yesterday and today. TCDSU are proposing to build a €6.7m student centre for the college, covering 1,000m2.
The referendum proposed implementing a levy of €30 per year on each student starting in September 2019 to fund construction, with exemptions for those on financial hardship. The levy is set to run for 22 years with TCDSU mandated to build the centre within five years. The first two years of funding will be put towards upgrading existing spaces with improvements starting this summer.
The centre will contain a common area for all students accessible all day, multipurpose rooms for event space, break-out spaces, accessible offices for TCDSU sabbatical officers as well as microwaves and kitchenettes for the use of students. The levy will also be used to fund new student spaces off campus in D'Olier Street, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) and Tallaght Hospital, as well as the existing student spaces in St James Hospital. In addition, the fund will also improve the 1937 Reading Room and provide accessible offices for the Graduate Students' Union (GSU).
A previous proposal by TCDSU for a student centre failed in 2011. When asked why he expected this proposal to succeed earlier this week, TCDSU President Kieran McNulty noted how the two referendums were "significantly different" with the previous proposed levy being €80, and at that time College was considering paying for the centre.
McNulty stated that the exact location of the new centre would not be known until June but that 1000m2 of space has been promised by College.
Additional reporting by Jake Trant.
Niamh was Editor of the 65th volume of Trinity News. She is a History and Politics graduate.
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Julie's parents were concerned. Julie was a single child from a pretty wealthy family with many properties and stores. So, her parents, her family, and her friends convinced her to protect herself by writing a prenup agreement. Should they get divorced, Julie would keep all her family's belongings. All her entourage pressured her so much that Julie finally arrived at the idea that it was necessary to sign a prenup.
Jean-Pierre didn't accept it at first, but in the end, he had no choice: Was it worth losing the woman he considered to be his soulmate?
Jean-Pierre and Julie finally got married and had two gorgeous daughters. But Jean-Pierre was still a little bit sad. After all, if they insisted on a contract, it was because her family didn't completely trust him.
Jean-Pierre had been writing for a few years, and he had written many books. He was also working as a French teacher to get some additional revenue. However, he decided to stop writing to become a full-time teacher and contribute more to the family expenses.
He threw himself into his work as a teacher. One day, as Julie was watching television, she saw that the press was looking for the anonymous author of three books. From their description of the writing, she immediately recognized her husband's style. After he was identified as the author of these books, he was given royalties for the book sales.
Jean-Pierre soon became very rich and famous, so much so that Julie (and, indeed, the press) was now waiting for the day when Jean-Pierre would cheat on her. She expected that he would eventually divorce her to marry another girl—probably an actress or a model or simply a younger woman. He was now famous and powerful, far richer than his wife and her entire family.
Rumors of cheating grew more and more persistent. The rumors said that Jean-Pierre would ask for a divorce and that he was getting ready for another wedding.
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As Jessica's 39th birthday approached, I asked her a question to which I already knew the answer.
"Let's go somewhere," she said, predictably.
"Where would you like to go?" I asked, pretty sure that I knew the answer to this question, as well.
"I want to go to Malta," she said immediately, just as I knew she would.
We had been talking about visiting the island nation since we met Maria and Bernard a couple of years earlier at a cantina in Alberobello. At the time, they were honeymooning in Puglia and we shared some wine and conversation over the course of a couple of hours, becoming fast friends and agreeing to a reunion in their home country of Malta. This was a chance to make that happen and I began the planning.
Conveniently, there is a direct flight on Ryanair from Bari to the Maltese capital of Valletta and, for only €160 roundtrip for the two of us, I booked the flights. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that rental cars in Malta are very cheap. For only €50, I was able to book a car for the entire week of our stay, though the insurance was another €50. I figured that full coverage was wise since the Maltese drive on the left and, apparently, accidents caused by tourists neglecting this rule are frequent. I had only experienced driving on the left once, and that was on the Caribbean island of St. John where traffic is light and moves at an island pace. Since that was only modestly successful, I sprung for the insurance.
We had heard that the Maltese island of Gozo was a must-see so our plan was to spend a couple of days on Malta, a couple on Gozo, and then back to Malta for the rest of our week. I booked the hotel in Valletta that Maria recommended, The Phoenicia, which was described as being just outside of the walls of Valletta. I also booked a room on Gozo for the one night we would be there. After making a few notable travel blunders over the years, I was not about to add to my reputation for being disorganized on this occasion. I was on top of this. Right?
It was an early morning on the day of our departure. The alarm was set for 4:30 am and we were on the road by 5:00 for the one-hour drive to Bari. We had never flown on Ryanair and had heard some not-so-complimentary things about the deep-discount airline and I thought they might be merited when, despite being told to arrive at the airport two hours before the departure time, we were told that we could not check in until an hour before the flight. But, everything seemed to go smoothly from the point that we could check-in to our eventual landing on Malta an hour after take-off. We were even able to buy roundtrip transport from the airport to the hotel where I was to pick up the rental car from the flight attendant before we landed. This was almost too easy but that was about to change.
Jessica and I climbed into the van that would take us to a hotel where we were to collect the rental car. I wanted to take note of the "driving on the left" thing so that I might feel a bit more comfortable when it was time for me to sit behind the wheel. It didn't take long for me to realize several things that turned me pale. First, not only do the Maltese drive on the wrong side of the road, but the driver sits on the wrong side of the car. They also shift gears with the wrong hand. I also noted that roundabouts are negotiated in a clockwise fashion, completely opposite of what I'm accustomed to and I could picture the chaos that would result from my failure to keep this constantly in mind. And, somewhat to my surprise, the traffic in Malta, at least on our drive from the airport, was extremely heavy and cars came at us from all directions. It occurred to me that I was about to get into an unfamiliar car, sit on the wrong side of it and drive it on the wrong side of strange roads that go places I've never been, watching out for road signs, careening vehicles and the occasional pedestrian. I put our life expectancy at about six minutes.
This fountain is in the middle of a roundabout. I would have done it damage.
The van dropped us and our luggage off at the hotel where we would sign the car rental papers and our death warrant.
"I do too," she said, having seen the same things as I did on the trip from the airport. We cancelled the car, having no idea how we were now going to be able to get around the island.
Wonder why I didn't want to drive?
Fortunately, we passed The Phoenicia Hotel en route to the rental car spot, so we knew how to get there. It was just two blocks, but straight up hill and our suitcase was a burden. We were relieved when we reached the entrance and handed the luggage over to the bellman. The man at the front desk welcomed us warmly and, even though it was only noon, handed us keys to a room. The room was large, very nicely appointed and fully-equipped with a large television on which I was able to watch Chopped for the first time in months. The bed, as we were to discover later, was one of the most luxurious and comfortable we had ever slept in. The only thing lacking in the room were electrical outlets so Jessica and I had to take turn–her iPad, my iPad, her iPhone, my iPhone–using the one accessible outlet.
While Jessica settled in and unpacked some things, I went to speak to the concierge about our transportation problem. For one thing, we had bought tickets to see the Hypogeum and, since they only allow ten people into the exhibit at a time (more on this in a later post), the tickets are for a specific date and time. We needed transport that would get us there on Monday by 1:45 without fail. Then I explained that we would like to just see the island. The concierge suggested that we buy tickets for "hop-on, hop-off" bus tours. These are open-air buses that travel two routes (north and south) around Malta, stopping at points of interest. About every 45 minutes, another bus comes along so a person can get off one of the buses and visit a spot or have a bite to eat and jump on the next bus. The entire trip takes about three hours if you stay on the bus so the two routes take in quite a bit of the island. In addition, the company has a hop-on, hop-off tour of Gozo and a Malta harbor tour done by boat. This sounded like the perfect solution to our "fear of driving" problem.
"How much for all four tours?" I asked.
"Would you like also to include transport to the ferry terminal?" he responded. I had looked at maps of Malta before we left Italy and noted that the ferry that sailed from Malta to Gozo docked what looked to be quite a distance from Valletta.
"Yes, with transport," I said.
"That would be €122," he said.
"For each of us?" I asked thinking that, even if the answer were yes it sounded like a bargain.
I booked the tours immediately so that the guy didn't have a chance to realize he made some kind of calculation error and ran back up to the room to tell Jessica and I was, yet again, a hero. She was elated at what I had accomplished. Or was it just the thought that she would not be waking up in a hospital tomorrow? No matter. Now we could start our Malta vacation.
I don\'t know how I missed this but even three years later it is a treasure. My husband and I are enjoying your travels.
Thanks so much, Lucia. Malta made for an interesting experience. So good to hear from you.
Hey Scott and Jessica! BEAUTIFUL pictures. . . and terrific writing. Happy Birthday Jessica. all the Best to you Both! Dan G.
Hi Scott, I loved reading your post on Malta, where I live! If you're a Brit of course, it's not 'driving on the wrong side of the road'! However, I do concur that it is a difficult proposition to drive here as a visitor, unaware of the peculiarities of local drivers, signage etc. I arrived here 20 years ago from the UK and it took me about 6 months to fee 'confident' driving - knowing where I was going, avoiding accidents. Hire cars are very useful though, even on our small space, to get to some countryside regions and more unusual sights - coastal walks etc. If you're here on a very short stay, the regular sights and sites are pretty much all you'll need to see - Valletta warrants almost 2 days alone, along with the Three Cities across Grand Harbour and so public transport - even water taxis - suffice for that. I run Malta Inside Out, a magazine style blog-site with lots of visitor and local info. We wrote on the hazards of driving here! http://www.maltainsideout.com/2475/indicate-please-tips-for-safe-driving-in-malta/ I am glad you loved your time in Malta, as in its own way, it's very different from Italy yet obviously shares a certain southern Mediterranean way of doing things. Again, I'd stress that short stays one won't need a car - the first time in Malta - but to really get away from urban areas, and discover a more rural, time-honoured Malta, one would need wheels. I posted a link to your post on our Facebook page on Malta Inside Out so hope some folk beam in to read your wonderfully charming account.
I loved this - it's always nice to see my homeland from foreign eyes. You could have bough a multi-socket adaptor for the electricity outlet from any hardware shop. Oh - and we also drive in the shade. I hope you ate Maltese food.


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import React, {PureComponent, ChangeEvent} from 'react'

// Components
import {
  Form,
  Input,
  Button,
  Grid,
  Columns,
  Dropdown,
} from '@influxdata/clockface'
import VariableArgumentsEditor from 'src/variables/components/VariableArgumentsEditor'

// Utils
import {validateVariableName} from 'src/variables/utils/validation'

// Constants
import {variableItemTypes} from 'src/variables/constants'

// Types
import {Props} from 'src/variables/components/VariableFormContext'
import {
  ButtonType,
  ComponentColor,
  ComponentStatus,
} from '@influxdata/clockface'
import {VariableArguments, VariableArgumentType} from 'src/types'

interface State {
  isNameValid: boolean
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  firstRun: boolean
  selected: string[]
}

export default class VariableForm extends PureComponent<Props, State> {
  constructor(props) {
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      isNameValid: false,
      hasValidArgs: false,
      firstRun: true,
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    }
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  public render() {
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                  required={true}
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                >
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                      name="name"
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                    />
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                </Form.ValidationElement>
              </div>
            </Grid.Column>
            <Grid.Column widthXS={Columns.Six}>
              <Form.Element label="Type" required={true}>
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                          id={v.type}
                          testID={`variable-type-dropdown-${v.type}`}
                          value={v.type}
                          onClick={this.handleChangeType}
                          selected={v.type === variableType}
                        >
                          {v.label}
                        </Dropdown.Item>
                      ))}
                    </Dropdown.Menu>
                  )}
                />
              </Form.Element>
            </Grid.Column>
          </Grid.Row>
          <Grid.Row>
            <Grid.Column>
              <VariableArgumentsEditor
                onChange={this.handleChangeArgs}
                onSelectMapDefault={this.handleSelectMapDefault}
                selected={selected}
                args={this.activeVariable}
              />
            </Grid.Column>
          </Grid.Row>
          <Grid.Row>
            <Grid.Column>
              <Form.Footer>
                <Button text="Cancel" onClick={onHideOverlay} />
                <Button
                  text={submitText}
                  type={ButtonType.Submit}
                  color={ComponentColor.Success}
                  status={
                    this.isFormValid
                      ? ComponentStatus.Default
                      : ComponentStatus.Disabled
                  }
                />
              </Form.Footer>
            </Grid.Column>
          </Grid.Row>
        </Grid>
      </Form>
    )
  }

  private get typeDropdownLabel(): string {
    const {variableType} = this.props

    return variableItemTypes.find(variable => variable.type === variableType)
      .label
  }

  private get isFormValid(): boolean {
    const {isNameValid} = this.state

    return this.validArgs && isNameValid
  }

  private get activeVariable(): VariableArguments {
    const {initialScript, variableType, query, map, constant} = this.props
    const {firstRun} = this.state

    switch (variableType) {
      case 'query': {
        const _query = query
        if (firstRun && !_query.values.query.length) {
          _query.values.query = initialScript || ''
        }
        return _query
      }
      case 'map':
        return map
      case 'constant':
        return constant
    }

    return query
  }

  private get validArgs(): boolean {
    const {variableType, query, map, constant} = this.props

    switch (variableType) {
      case 'query':
        return !!query.values.query
      case 'constant':
        return constant.values.length !== 0
      case 'map':
        return Object.keys(map.values).length !== 0
      default:
        return false
    }
  }

  private handleSubmit = (): void => {
    const {name, onCreateVariable, onHideOverlay} = this.props
    const {selected} = this.state

    onCreateVariable({
      selected,
      name,
      arguments: this.activeVariable,
    } as any)

    onHideOverlay()
  }

  private handleChangeType = (selectedType: string) => {
    const {variableType, onTypeUpdate} = this.props
    const {isNameValid} = this.state
    const defaults = {selected: null, hasValidArgs: false, isNameValid}

    if (variableType === selectedType) {
      return
    }

    this.setState(defaults)

    onTypeUpdate(selectedType as VariableArgumentType)
  }

  private handleSelectMapDefault = (selected: string) => {
    this.setState({selected: [selected]})
  }

  private handleChangeArgs = ({
    args,
    isValid,
  }: {
    args: VariableArguments
    isValid: boolean
  }) => {
    const {onQueryUpdate, onMapUpdate, onConstantUpdate} = this.props

    switch (args.type) {
      case 'query':
        onQueryUpdate(args)
        break
      case 'map':
        onMapUpdate(args)
        break
      case 'constant':
        onConstantUpdate(args)
        break
    }

    this.setState({hasValidArgs: isValid})
  }

  private handleNameValidation = (name: string) => {
    const {variables} = this.props
    const {error} = validateVariableName(name, variables)

    this.setState({isNameValid: !error})

    return error
  }

  private handleChangeInput = (e: ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => {
    const {value} = e.target

    this.props.onNameUpdate(value)
  }
}


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Asian Spring
Chen Wenling
Chinese artist Chen Wenling, who has emerged as one of the most innovative and prominent sculptors of his generation, was born in 1969, in a mountain village in the Fujian province. His first artistic endeavours began within his family home where, as a small boy, he made his own toys and small clay figurines. He was admitted to the Xiamen School of Arts and Crafts to study traditional Chinese ink painting, and graduated with a degree in woodcarving. He began as a civil servant and then completed his studies as a sculptor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China. He finally settled in Beijing in 2004.
His artistic career has been interwoven with successes and failures, and certain challenges led him to reflect upon the objective of a work of art, how it interacts with its environment, and how it relates to the viewer, as well as the artist's purpose in society.
His increasingly large-scale works aim to express his ideas about these themes. He combines sculptures, installations, videos, photos, and performance art, establishing a highly original and constantly evolving vision. His work is both visual and conceptual. His artistic education was cut short and, in his eyes, remains incomplete, and his self-taught style distances him from formatted aesthetic codes. His rural origins, away from the big cities, the art scholars, and the celebrated figures of the famous academies made him open to other approaches. Above all, his art was a way of creating a universal link - not primarily with a refined elite, but with the greatest number of people possible, of all social classes, from the scholar to the peasant.
Through symbols, colours and recurring themes, he succeeded in giving a new face to contemporary China and its upheavals. The Western eye can judge with less understanding the content of his historical referents, the significance of these symbols, both ancient and modern, which seem so familiar to the Chinese world.
His favorite figure, the main character that he frequently portrays in his work, is the pig, who becomes a messenger of the artist's questions. Its image is powerfully rooted in popular and domestic culture, and festivals and houses alike abound with its representation.
According to tradition, the pig brings luck, wealth and fertility. The Chinese character Jia 甲 is made up of the house character at the top, and the pig character at the bottom.
The reason why the pig came to mean home, household or family can be explained by looking back in history. Pigs were considered to be intelligent animals and their courage was admired. They were also symbolic of wealth, since in ancient times only the wealthy could afford to eat pork. The pig's high level of fertility, with many litters of piglets per sow, is a symbol of a happy family and is associated with luck. Chen himself visited a sow that had delivered 30 piglets! If Western tradition portrays the pig as a voracious, gluttonous, dirty, lazy, hypersexual and stupid animal, it is nevertheless a creature that is satisfied and happy. Scientific studies have proven its intelligence. For Chen, this animal is equated with speed. Through its constant feeding, it takes a pig just two months to attain maturity and be killed ready for consumption. Paradoxically, its accelerated development is a process that only quickens the animal's own end. This is its fate. Through his art, Chen draws a comparison between the pig's rapid growth and the speed of development and productivity of contemporary China.
His king-like pig bloats with abundance and gluttony, obscene obesity and Rabelaisian triumph, sick with greed. Surrounded by creatures covered in excessive amounts of makeup, he burps and farts the nauseating fumes of lawless vanity into the world. His vulgarity and bestial nature portray the vices of the world in which he wallows. He reigns over small obedient litters, arranged in rows as in a military parade, consuming his droppings in a grotesque feast. Capitalism where everything is on the menu, a funfair of vanities, the Sodom and Gomorrah of the East draw us in a daze towards a never-ending banquet, where the consumer is never satisfied and continues to guzzle his rich food until death. He participates in this absurd cycle that leads him relentlessly to his downfall.
Is it not the artist's role to protect the masses from the dangers of this deception of abundance, that is widely accepted by society ?
Chen is a gaudy prophet who uses "bad taste" to cry out for outrage and indignation. Like Joseph Beuys, he advocates a "Social Art" intended to awaken the masses to the fact that a tree being planted is worth more than narcissistic objects hidden in the dark rooms of museums for the eyes of connoisseurs.
Through his early 'Red Boys' sculptures (1984), standing on the beach, between the sea spray and sunrises, we can once more witness the sweet simplicity of an innocent time. These giant boys - naked, laughing, and red (a lucky colour) - echo our shared dream of youth and utopian prosperity.
This innocent world has changed and become corrupt, irretrievably tainted by the rapid growth of a country that was not prepared for the storms of rampant urbanization, Western corruptions and greedy markets. Its frail boys have transformed into slaves who cry out in silent rage.
Chen's work does not explicitly speak out against politics like that of many exiled artists. Rather, like a 17th-century fairground man with a pig as his harlequin, he conveys and caricatures the image of a rapidly-changing society in his grotesque fables. His references to pop culture, to the material language of fads and trends that is now accepted by all as part of the tradition of communication, make him an easily comprehensible messenger, even if some of his allegories contain more cryptic hidden messages.
The wind of the West has blown through Pop Art and their followers from Warhol to Koons with a more American orientation or idols or the odyssey of false paradises do not have the same faces, but these influences remain foreign to the internal history of his country.